Street Easy: Look at all the New York places you can't afford!
Posted by David December 29, 2005 @ 03:15 AM
Street Easy is a sweet new mash-up of Google Maps that’s running Ruby on Rails to mock you for all the places in New York you can’t afford to buy. Yet. Before you’ve launched your Web 2.0 mash-up and sold it to Yahoo. Wait a minute. It’s RECURSIVE!
Kidding aside, this is a very nice looking site done by Sebastian Delmont and friends. Check it out.
C’mon, David! You can’t afford those places? You need to ask for a raise!
Seriously. I’m sure someone would hire you! I would.
I still don’t quite have the pocket change to pick up something really nice. Like a $3M condo in Midtown. Dammit, Jason, I want a raise! ;)
David, register using Jason’s email and “David wants a raise” as your name. When he’s not looking, go to his computer and confirm the registration (or send me a note and I’ll hack it for you).
Then set up a saved search for anything above $1M and we’ll be asking (spamming is too strong a word) him every day asking for your raise.
Now seriously, thanks for the mention!
Sebastian-
+++1 Funny
Seriously, it’s a really cool real estate website. Best I have ever seen in usability and features.
I wish they made the same website for Chicago!
Interesting…
My company came very close to making a similar site with a virtual tour providor, but we lost the contract.
I like their implementation… very clean.
Matt
Nice site. The search and filters don’t seem to work too well. I was puzzled by the resultsets. It seems that when you search for a large area the result page loses the criterias.
Try this:
Search for all manhattan under $500,000 then in the next page click on soho.
vs
Search for soho under $500,000
The first case will bring houses starting from 9mils.
Didn’t know where to report it.
On a different note is the customization of the google map baloon in the google map api?
Sorry, the trackback “Is it a RubyOnRail generated error ?” is mine. I have a problem with my trackback script. It generates wrong URL. I’ll correct it.
Sorry again!